Evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría para estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación a Distancia, período Octubre-Febrero 2015 Centro Universitario de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Abstract

This project demonstrates the role that mentoring can have a strategy targeting at the college. For it is part of the analysis of the needs of university students in the first cycle and the situation of college counseling services in order to argue the benefits of mentoring to help students in their transition to college. Next, the characteristics of mentoring will be addressed. The study was conducted in the city of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas , participants were counselor, mentor and mentee ; The research was qualitative , quantitative , exploratory and descriptive, using the methods of participatory action . Besides different bibliographic research techniques and field as well as the instruments provided by the university they were used. Finally they discussed the results of the mentoring process applied to undergraduate students.